Coastal Ecologies at Risk

Kousik Das Malakar is a socio-ecological geographer and GIS analyst specializing in climate change and policy. He is Assistant Professor of Geography at GDC Memorial College, India. He holds a PhD from the Central University of Haryana and a master’s degree from JNU. His research focuses on climate crisis, coastal systems, sustainability, disasters, and geospatial technologies.Kajal Kumar Mandal is Assistant Professor (Guest) of Geography at the Central University of Haryana. He holds a PhD in Disaster Management from Pondicherry University and researches natural disasters, remote sensing, and coastal environments.Jenia Mukherjee is Associate Professor at IIT Kharagpur and a transdisciplinary environmental humanities researcher working on urban deltas, coastal environments, and the Sundarbans through global collaborative research, outreach, and policy engagement.Supriya Roy is a GIS analyst and socio-environmental geographer with a master’s degree from Visva-Bharati University. Her research focuses on coastal society, environmental change, and sustainability.

• Part I: Fundamentals of Climate Disasters and Coastal Ecologies.- Chapter 1. Introduction to Climate Disasters and Coastal Ecologies.- Chapter 2. Climate Disasters, Socio-ecological Vulnerability and Coastal Ecologies: Assessment and Mapping.- Part II: Understanding the Coastal Socio-Ecological Systems: Climate Disasters, Coastal Resilience, and Management.- Chapter 3.Climate Disasters and Coastal Infrastructural Resilience.- Chapter 4. Risk Perceptions, Communication and Early Warning Systems.- Chapter 5. Climate Disasters and Enhancing Coastal Resilience: Applications of Ecosystem-based Adaptation.- Chapter 6. Climate Disasters and Enhancing Coastal Resilience: Applications of Community-based Adaptation and Participatory Approaches.- Chapter 7. Climate-induced Disaster Risk Reduction and Integrated Coastal Zone Management.- Part III: Risk Reduction Practices and Socio-ecological Sustainability: Policy Frameworks and Future Challenges.- Chapter 8. Policy Frameworks and Governance: Enhancing Coastal Resilience.- Chapter 9. Sustainable Coastal Development and Blue Economy.- Chapter 10. Coastal Disaster Risk Reduction Practices: Future Challenges and Opportunities.- Part IV: Participatory Approaches in Coastal Disaster Risk Reduction and Sustainability: Risk Perceptions and Field Narratives.- Chapter 11. Risk Perceptions in Coastal Disaster Risk Reduction: Participatory Insights.- Chapter 12. Voices from the Coast: Field Narratives on Participatory Coastal Disaster Risk Reduction and Sustainability.- Part V: Applications of GIScience and Participatory Approaches in Coastal Disaster Risk Reduction and Sustainability: Case Studies.- Chapter 13. Geospatial Science for Disaster Risk Monitoring, Management and Sustainability: Insights from the Indian Coast.- Chapter 14. Coastal-Climate Nexus and Participatory Interactions in the Indian Delta: Implications for Disaster Risk Reduction and Socio-ecological Sustainability.